Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, was found guilty of four counts of rape as a secondary party by encouraging and filming the brutal attack
A vile predator who filmed a woman being raped on Brighton beach by his two twisted friends was in the UK in a bid to avoid jail after being convicted of murder in Egypt, prosecutors have said.
Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, was found guilty of four counts of rape as a secondary party by encouraging and filming the horror attack in October last year. The victim was targeted by the men as she was “staggering in the street” and “incapacitated” in the early hours of October 4 last year, Hove Crown Court heard. She said she heard laughter as she was attacked.
Al-Danasurt was convicted after a trial alongside Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, and Iranian Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, who were each found guilty of two counts of rape. The trio all arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel by boat and had decisions pending on asylum claims.
Details of Al-Danasurt’s alleged past crimes emerged at a plea hearing in November last year, ahead of the trial, but the judge withdrew the evidence from the case after his defence team contested the conviction.
At the time, prosecutors told the court Al-Danasurt had been convicted of murder in his absence in Egypt, adding that the basis of his asylum claim was that he fled the country to “evade a lengthy custodial sentence”. But his defence barrister said it was in fact his brother who had the conviction for murder, not him.
They added that the UK Government’s assessment of Egypt is that a person who is openly critical of the government is likely to be at risk of serious harm. As a result, the evidence was not heard by jurors during the trial because of the dispute.
On Thursday, prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters KC told the court there were “ongoing inquiries at a very senior level” about Al-Danasurt’s crimes abroad, adding he had also been given a caution in the UK for criminal damage in April last year but said she was “not in a position” to provide any more detail.
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She also told Judge Christine Henson KC it was “not a foregone conclusion that these defendants will be deported”, adding “I am not the Home Office” when asked about reports to determine whether the rapists meet the threshold for extended sentences.
In the wake of the verdicts, border security and asylum minister Alex Norris said: “Once sentencing has taken place, we will move to deport them off British soil.”
At the time of the attack, all three defendants knew each other and were living at Home Office-approved hotel accommodation for asylum seekers in Lower Beeding near Horsham, West Sussex.
Al-Danasurt was born in Egypt and went to school there until around the age of 11, and left Egypt to come to the UK in June 2022.
